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[dervishx5]

If you depend on LRMs all the time to play you should adjust your playstyle. Chances are you're wasting your potential.

Try LRM brawling (200-300 meters away) instead of standing back at 900 meters and being useless. You'll notice you do 2-3x more damage.

If played right (and with bay doors closed, learn to live with the fire delay), the Archer is pretty good at LRM brawling. Much better than the Catapult.

Edited by dervishx5, 17 March 2016 - 06:25 AM.

[meteorol]

Tractor Joe, on 17 March 2016 - 06:21 AM, said:

Sorry bud it was not months it was in the next patch.

Actually, the "next patch" after the BK release only fixed it ****** hitboxes. The BK was released on Sep. 22, Oct. 6 patch fixed the hitboxes. What actually pulled the BK from **** to top tier was the quirk change on Dec. 1.

[Deathlike]

El Bandito, on 17 March 2016 - 06:11 AM, said:

Black Knight upon release was considered trash. PGI fixed its hitboxes in only 14 days. I foresee Archer quirk and possibly ST hitbox adjustments in the next monthly patch. Far sooner than the 60-90 days you magically predicted.

The 60 to 90 days is a running joke.

It only takes enough complaining over Twitter before Russ realizes "oh poop, we gotta fix this stat!"

The funny thing is, I've given this advice to make sure it's "done right" the first time so people would actually bother to keep buying more packs... too bad that's totally lost on mechs like the Vindicator.

[STEF_]

Bishop Steiner, on 16 March 2016 - 03:04 PM, said:

Simply put, all ARCs, probably need 20+ Structure to both CT and ST. Go middle of the road on the Agility Quirks.
Offensively? Give the Big Racks on the 2R a tight enough pattern to make it worth taking LRM15s or 20s. On the 5S and 5W, give them similar LRM spread but lighter, and perhaps a small cooldown to SRMs. Tempest has ECM, so lightest offensive quirks of the bunch. And no archer but the 2K/5K of which we did not get, really makes sense to have energy weapon quirks.

and this is what I was waiting for.
I was thinking to buy the pack if archer would have been fine as srm brawler (being lrm in a sad state).

pgi completely screw it

[Rhent]

Stefka Kerensky, on 17 March 2016 - 07:51 AM, said:

and this is what I was waiting for.
I was thinking to buy the pack if archer would have been fine as srm brawler (being lrm in a sad state).

pgi completely screw it

A SRM brawler is a death wish, you have to run with the bays open and there goes a lot of your toughness. I got my refund, so I won't have the Archer in my mech bays making me vomit every time I go to my heavies.

[STEF_]

Rhent, on 17 March 2016 - 06:14 PM, said:

A SRM brawler is a death wish, you have to run with the bays open and there goes a lot of your toughness. I got my refund, so I won't have the Archer in my mech bays making me vomit every time I go to my heavies.

Never seen a good srm brawler before, out there?

The only thing that pgi screwed are quirks...

[SplashDown]

The archer is fine..i have np with it at all..i dunno why so many players whining..its a great mech.
ITS A SUPPORT MECH not a frontline fighter..quirks are fine hit boxs are fine..perhaps ppl should l2p insted of expecting the mech to play itself....l2p insted of whining and crying becuz ur new toy wasnt OP flavor of the patch
I play archer alot and i luv it..i pwn players all day long in it.